Sumr Fairmont knew she had no European bloodline; it was obvious to the naked eye.
But she didn’t know she had a brother, nor did she rember having a mother in Scotland.
Perhaps out of self-protection, Sumr Fairmont’s mory began after she turned four.
This way, she didn’t need to rember that she once banged on a door for three hours next to a corpse until she fainted.
Hieronymus had always been a reclusive "lonely old man," and after Quinn Fairmont’s death, he took seclusion to the extre.
Because everyone on Islay said Hieronymus married Quinn Fairmont, and due to the different surnas, even Sumr herself thought her adoptive father Hieronymus was her stepfather.
Sumr Fairmont harbored resistance against Hieronymus due to his extre coldness towards her.
Even if he was a stepfather, even without blood ties, there was still a duty of care.
The extre coldness, ignoring her completely, was absolutely not what soone with "father" in their title should do.
Sumr Fairmont’s cooking skills began at the age of five, standing on a small stool to cook for herself.
At five, while other children were playing house in gardens, Sumr had already learned to make cold and hot als and stir-fry.
Hieronymus wasn’t completely neglectful; at least Sumr had attended aristocratic schools since childhood.
If not for this, she wouldn’t possibly have t Artie Vaughn during her school years.
During the years Sumr grew up in Scotland, The Brunschwig Family was too poor to even repair their house.
According to this logic, Hieronymus was still very devoted to Sumr, like those Celestar parents who tighten their belts to send their kids to the best schools.
The reality and this logic, however, were quite different.
European aristocratic schools mostly still valued heritage a great deal.
During its heyday, The Brunschwig Family had donated money to many private schools in Scotland.
Sumr Fairmont, thanks to the "ancestral blessings of The Brunschwig Family," was admitted to a private aristocratic school with full tuition waivers.
However, waiving tuition didn’t solve all her problems.
Sumr did not belong to this aristocratic circle; she couldn’t even afford the school uniform and had to rely on help from other students’ parents.
Such "special care" was definitely a significant harm for a child just starting school.
For what purpose did those parents help Sumr Fairmont?
How would those parents talk to their children about her?
Sumr overheard those parents, after doing their good deeds, advising their kids not to play with soone of Sumr’s birth.
If possible, Sumr would have preferred to stay at a public, non-aristocratic school.
Hieronymus never cared whether Sumr could adapt, not appearing even once at school.
Throughout Sumr’s schooling, she’d never had a parent figure present.
Even on holidays at ho, Sumr rarely saw Hieronymus.
Each encounter left her feeling uneasy due, to the chilling look Hieronymus cast her way.
This prompted Sumr to seek independence at the age of thirteen.
Originally, Hieronymus had hoped Sumr could inherit her mother’s talent in tasting and brewing whiskey.
But Sumr’s starkly poor taste and sll senses, shown from a young age, left Hieronymus deeply disappointed, without any sense of fondness.
All his life, Hieronymus never found another successor capable of brewing Brunswick Whiskey.
In Hieronymus’s will, he left Sumr Fairmont four items:
A family tree—the heritage of The Brunschwig Family and the five-hundred-year-old whiskey-brewing technique.
A letter—explaining the ntorship between Hieronymus and Sumr’s mother.
An investigation—the report on Sumr’s mother’s accidental death.
Finally, ten thousand bottles of Brunswick Whiskey, the brewing thods of which had been lost.
The four items Hieronymus left Sumr, except for the whiskey, remained untouched.
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